Re: how to submit a new module via CVS?

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, PHP development @echospace wrote: > Hi, I would greatly appreciate if someone answers a few basic CVS-related questions. > > I am about to submit a new module (ext/pspell). I am not familiar with how CVS works, but I > assume that something like</FONT> > > cvs import -m "initial release" php4/ext/pspell [vendor-tag] [release-tag] > followed by a commit should work. The question is: what should I make those vendor-tag and > release-tag? Do they carry any useful information in PHP tree, or I can just use whatever I want? No. You check out PHP and then add your module under ext/. Then you do: cvs add ext/pspell cvs add ext/pspell/* cvs commit > Another question: Should I modify anything at all outside the ext/pspell directory, or is it > somebody else's responsibility to run buildconf when they get the tree? No, you shouldn't modify anything outside ext/pspell. > Any yet another question. Many (but not all) source files I found in php tree contain $Id tag > in them. Is it required or optional? And how do I create it - manually editing, or is there a tool > that does it for me? It's optional. When you cvs commit, $Id$ gets replaced with a CVS info string. > The questions might be dumb, but I am new to CVS and have to figure them out sooner rather than > later. No problem. Read README.CVS_RULES too in the top PHP directory. -Andrei * Unix is user friendly, it is just chooses its users selectively. *